[systemd-devel] /run DoS

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 03.04.11 23:28, Michał Piotrowski (mkkp4x4 at gmail.com) wrote:

> > But for /dev/shm I see no quick fix... do you?
> 
> Unfortunately not. No one foresaw that quota support on tmpfs will
> someday be useful :)
> 
> >
> > I think we should fix either both or should wait for the proper fix by
> > the kernel.
> 
> Can you temporarily fix one?

Well, of course we could.

But, think about it, what does this help? The vulnerability doesn't go
away by doing this, and we'd have a temporary hack in there, that we'd
have to remove later on again.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.